Research
Linda Sandino
Senior Research Fellow, Voices in the Visual Arts [VIVA]
Research Interests
Oral History; Life Stories; Voices in the Visual Arts (VIVA); History and Theory of the Applied Arts.
Peer Esteem
Since 2005, Executive Committee member, Design History Society; Jury Panel Member, 'Speak for Yourself' competition, Interpreting Ceramics (2006); Creative8 Selector, Clerkenwell Green Association (2005-06); Advisor, Arts Co. Draft National Strategy for the Crafts (2005);Arts Council funded mentor to Freddie Robins, Battersea Arts Centre exhibition Ceremony (2005) as well as Next Move Creative Mentoring, Crafts Council, RIBA (2003) and North West Arts (2002). External Examining includes Norwich School of Art & Design, Critical Studies (2005-09); University of Hertfordshire, BA (Hons) Media & Applied Arts (2000-04); University of Kingston, MA History of Design, History of Art, History of Design, Contemporary Curating in Design (2001-05); and MA History of the Decorative Arts and Design, University of Brighton (2000-04) .
Profile
Linda Sandino graduated from the V&A/RCA MA in 1991, specialising in the representation of crafts and the applied arts in word and image. As Keeper of the Camberwell/ILEA Collection of Design and Craft, research and teaching has concentrated on this area with a recent shift into Oral History after completing extensive and intensive life histories recordings for the National Life Story Collection at the The British Library National Sound Archive interviewing artists, architects, craftspeople, and designers.Current Research
"Current research involves the creation of an oral history archive, Voices in the Visual Arts (VIVA) based on interviews with former alumni of Camberwell College of Arts and, research into the dissemination and access of life history recordings. The interviews are also part of my doctoral research at the Centre for Narrative Research exploring the construction and meanings of life stories in the arts. Apart from building the collection, the research addresses the role of narrated life stories and identity formation of practitioners in the creative industries; the role of individual agency in the historical process; the relationship between oral and conventional historical accounts. The beginnings of this research has led to editing (forthcoming 2007) 'Oral Histories and Design', Special Issue, Journal of Design History, vol.19/4 with contributors from the UK, USA and Canada."Selected Research Outputs
2004 - ongoing, VIVA life history recordings2006 (forthcoming) Editor and Author, Journal of Design History, Special Issue 'Oral Histories and Design'.
2006 (forthcoming) Essay, 'Crafts for Crafts Sake' in: J. Aynsley & K. Forde (eds) Design and the modern magazine, University of Manchester Press.
2006 Interviews, Fashion Lives, The British Library, London (exhibited life stories of John Church, Angus Cundy, Leslie Russell, Percy Savage, and Lily Silberberg).
Published Writings / Editorial / Papers
2005 Paper, 'From Objects to Subjects', Show &Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image, University of Hertfordshire, 12 December.
2005 Catalogue essay, 'Freddie Robins' in: 'Revealed: Nottingham's Contemporary Textiles', an exhibiton of the museum's collection.
2004 Co-editor and Author, Journal of Design History v17/3. 'Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between Design, Craft and Art' pp207-19; also 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Transient Materiality in Contemporary Cultural Artefacts', pp. 283-93.
2002 Essay, 'Elective Affinities: Gordon Baldwin and Alison Britton', in: Ceramics: Art and Perception, Australia, pp 24-28.
2002 Paper, 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Transient Materiality', in: Crafts in the 21st Century: theorising change and practice, Edinburgh College of Art, 15 - 17 November.
2002 Essay, 'Studio Jewellery: Mapping the Absent Body', in: The Persistence of Craft, ed P. Greenhalgh, London/New Brunswick: A&C Black/Rutgers University Press.
2001 Article, 'Material Values', in: Crafts, no169, March/April 2001.
Supervision Expertise
History and Theory of the Applied Arts
Past Research Students
Diego Masera - 'Eco-Production: Sustainable product development in small furniture enterprises in the Purepecha region of Mexico'. Theses PhD. Royal College of Art.
Current Research Students
Christopher Jordan - Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, A Study of Private Collecting in the Early Twentieth Century [PhD due for completion 2006], Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Related Links
Journal of Design History, Vol 17, No3 - Read online: 'Dangerous Liasions: Relationships between Design, Craft and Art'Design History Society - designhistory.org
